Depicted in the North Atlantic during WW2. Because of her speed
'Exiria' was often ordered to make passages without the protection
given by a convoy. Understandably when sailing alone her Master would
drive her pitilessly in all weathers. Someone who sailed in her
described one voyage in which, "Captain Berg drove the ship hard from
Liverpool back to Jersey City, and was leaping, pounding, and
shuddering all the way. We came in with a corugated bottom, floating on
the tanktops of the first three holds."